Finding Journals in the Meriam Library catalog

If you already have obtained a citation for an article, the next step is to search for that journal in the Meriam Library collection by typing in the title of the publication, not the title of the article, in the search box in OneSearch.

The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography on the web provide extensive, research-level ethnographic information on societies throughout the world. They contain primary source documents from books, journal articles and unpublished manuscripts and are useful tools for in-depth cross cultural research. HRAF materials are contained in the HRAF microfiche collection located on the second floor of the Library.

JSTOR is a full text database that allows users to limit searches to "Antropology" and "Archaeology" among other choices. It has a "moving wall" of 3-5 year delay between the current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR.

Abstracts in Anthropology is journal that contains several thousand abstracts in anthropology, including cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. It contains only abstracts indexed by author and subect, and is not a full text dbase.

Other datebases with anthro content

America, History and Life (AHL) is a database of bibliographic citations and article abstracts on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to present. It cites articles that were published in 1964 or later and that come from more than 2,000 journals published in more than 40 languages. Paper indexes, 1954-1993 are also available in Meriam Library's Index Collection (second floor)

Historical Abstracts presents historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, it currently covers over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. All abstracts are written in English and are edited for clarity and precision. In addition to articles, each year Historical Abstracts includes approximately 3,000 citations to historical books as reviewed by the most prestigious journals in the field and citations to abstracts of dissertations.

Project MUSE, from Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, offers access to the full text of scholarly articles from over 100 online journals covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.